Subotnick - Music for the Double Life of Amphibians
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Label: Wergo
Cat No: WER73122
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 29th July 2016
Contents
Works
A Fluttering of WingsAscent into Air
Axolotl, for cello and electronic ghost score
The Last Dream of the Beat
Artists
Joan La Barbara (soprano)Juilliard String Quartet
Joel Krosnick (cello)
Calarts Twentieth Century Players
Erika Duke (cello)
Dane Little (cello)
Morton Subotnick (electronics)
Conductor
Stephen L. MoskoWorks
A Fluttering of WingsAscent into Air
Axolotl, for cello and electronic ghost score
The Last Dream of the Beat
Artists
Joan La Barbara (soprano)Juilliard String Quartet
Joel Krosnick (cello)
Calarts Twentieth Century Players
Erika Duke (cello)
Dane Little (cello)
Morton Subotnick (electronics)
Conductor
Stephen L. MoskoAbout
Axolotl is a Mexican salamander with two filigree wing-like appendages, extending from either side of the body. These are its lungs for the future transition from water onto land, but the axolotl never goes through the final stage of its potential development – it never reaches air – it remains forever in water.
Ascent Into Air starts with section 1 as a dark and intense musical environment without articulation of rhythmic or melodic material. This is followed by more dance-like materials in section 2. The third section is a playful interaction between the pianos, percussion and computer sounds which flows into the fourth section which is more emotional and forceful – even violent. The last section transforms into an ethereal, flowing chorale-like material.
The Last Dream of the Beast is a theatrical work, an electronic media drama in which both music and images will be emotional, clearly articulated, forceful and at times violent. “The Beast” means a creature caught between man and beast.
A Fluttering of Wings is in four parts played without pause. The opening is fast music of continuous semiquavers. The dance is also quick and continuous. In the third section, the music pauses for the first time. Here individual plucked notes and chords are altered by frequency changes produced by the electronics which help to create a halo-like sound. The final song hovers quietly while the landscape gradually evolves into its ultimate ecstatic form.
Recorded and originally released on LP by Nonesuch Records: 1981-1985
Digitized and reissued for the first time on CD by WERGO under license from Nonesuch Records
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